But, just to refresh your memories, I have written you pretty boldly on some points, because of the favor God has shown me

But now there is no more work for me in this part of the world, and as I have had a great desire for many years to come to see you,

who risked their necks to save my life. Not only I but also all the churches among the heathen thank them. Remember me also to the church that meets at their house.

Such men are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own base passions, and with their plausible and flattering talk they deceive simple-minded people.

Everyone has heard of your obedience, and I am very happy about you, but I want you to be wise about what is good and guileless about what is bad.

To him who can make you strong by the good news I bring and the preaching about Jesus Christ, through the disclosure of the secret kept back for long ages but now revealed,

But I urge you all, brothers, for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ, to agree in what you say, and not to allow factions among you, but to be perfectly united in mind and judgment.

Christ has been divided up! But was it Paul who was crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the good news??ut not with fine language, or the cross of Christ might seem an empty thing.

For to those who are on the way to destruction, the story of the cross is nonsense, but to us who are to be saved, it means all the power of God.

but we proclaim a Christ who was crucified??n idea that is revolting to Jews and absurd to the heathen,

but to those whom God has called, whether they are Jews or Greeks, a Christ who is God's power and God's wisdom.

But it was what the world calls foolish that God chose to put the wise to shame with, and it was what the world calls weak that God chose to shame its strength with,

But you are his children, through your union with Christ Jesus, whom God has made our wisdom??ur uprightness and consecration and redemption,

for I resolved, while I was with you, to forget everything but Jesus Christ and his crucifixion.

and my teaching and message were not put in plausible, philosophical language, but they were attended with convincing spiritual power,

so that your faith might rest, not on human philosophy, but on the power of God.

Yet there is a wisdom that we impart when we are with people who have a mature faith, but it is not what this world calls wisdom, nor what the authorities of this world, doomed as they are to pass away, would call so.

But it is a mysterious divine wisdom that we impart, hitherto kept secret, and destined by God before the world began for our glory.

But, as the Scripture says, there are things "Which no eye ever saw and no ear ever heard, And never occurred to the human mind, Which God has provided for those who love him."

For what human being can understand a man's thoughts except the man's own spirit within him? Just so no one understands the thoughts of God but the spirit of God.

But the Spirit we have received is not that of the world, but the Spirit that comes from God, which we have to make us realize the blessings God has given us.

These disclosures we impart, not in the set phrases of human philosophy, but in words the Spirit teaches, giving spiritual truth a spiritual form.

But the spiritual man is alive to all true values, but his own true value no unspiritual man can see.

For who has ever known the Lord's thoughts, so that he can instruct him? But we share the thoughts of Christ.

I did the planting, Apollos the watering, but it was God who made the plants grow.

So neither the planter nor the waterer counts for anything, but only God who makes the plants grow.

Like an expert builder, I laid a foundation, as God commissioned me to do, and now someone else is building upon it. But let everyone be careful how he does so.

If a man's work is burned up, he must stand the loss, though he himself will be saved, but as one who has passed through the fire.

But you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.

Do not form any premature judgments, therefore, but wait until the Lord comes back. For he will light up the darkness that now hides things and show what the motives in people's minds are, and then everyone will get from God the praise he deserves.

For who sees anything special in you? And what have you got that you have not been given? But if it has been given you, why do you boast as though it had not been?

I do not write this to you to make you ashamed, but for your instruction as my dear children.

But I am coming very soon to see you, if the Lord is willing, and then I will find out, not what these conceited people have to say, but what they can actually do.

For the reign of God is not a matter of words but of power.

So let us keep the festival, not with old yeast nor with the yeast of vice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of purity and truth.

but one Christian has to go to law with another, and before unbelievers too?

But it is you who wrong and rob others, and your own brothers at that!

Some of you used to be like that; but you have washed it all away, you have been consecrated, you have become upright, by the power of our Lord Jesus Christ and through the Spirit of our God.

I may do anything I please, but not everything I may do is good for me. I may do anything I please; but I am not going to let anything master me.

It is true, food is meant for the stomach, and the stomach for the food, but God will put an end to both of them. But the body is not meant for immorality, but for the service of the Lord, and the Lord is for the body to serve.

But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit.

Fly from immorality! Any other sin a man commits is something outside his body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.

But there is so much immorality that every man had better have a wife of his own, and every woman a husband of her own.

But I mean this as a concession, not a command.

I should like to have everyone be just as I am myself; but each one has his own special gift from God, one of one kind, and one of another.

But if they cannot control themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to be on fire with passion.

To those already married my instructions are??nd they are not mine, but the Lord's??hat a wife is not to separate from her husband.

and a woman who has a husband who is not a believer, but is willing to live with her, must not divorce her husband.

For the husband who is not a believer is consecrated through union with his wife, and the woman who is not a believer is consecrated through union with her Christian husband, for otherwise your children would be unblessed, but, as it is, they are consecrated.

But if the one who is not a believer wishes to separate, let the separation take place. In such cases the brother or sister is not a slave; God has called you to live in peace.

About unmarried women I have no command of the Lord to give you, but I will give you my opinion as that of one on whom through the Lord's mercy you can depend.

But if you do marry, there is no sin in that. And if a girl marries, it is no sin. But those who marry will have worldly trouble, which I would like to spare you.

But this I do say, brothers. The appointed time has grown very short. From this time on those who have wives should live as though they had none,

An unmarried woman or a girl is concerned about the Lord's work, so as to be consecrated in body and spirit, but the woman who marries is concerned with worldly affairs, and how she can please her husband.

It is for your benefit that I say this, not to put a halter on you, but to promote good order, and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord.

But if a man thinks he is not acting properly toward the girl to whom he is engaged, if his passions are too strong, and that is what ought to be done, let him do as he pleases; it is no sin; let them be married.

But a man who has definitely made up his mind, under no constraint of passion but with full self-control, and who has decided in his own mind to keep her as she is, will be doing what is right.

But she will be happier, in my judgment, if she remains as she is, and I think I have God's spirit as well as other people.

But if a man loves God, God is known by him.

As to eating things, then, that have been offered to idols, we all know that no idol has any real existence, and that there is no God but one.

But it is not everyone that has this knowledge; for some, through being long accustomed to idols, still eat meat that has been sacrificed to them as really offered to an idol, and their consciences, being oversensitive, are troubled.

But food is not going to affect our standing with God. We are none the worse if we do not eat it, and none the better if we do.

But you must take care that this right of yours does not prove a hindrance to the overscrupulous.

But in sinning against your brothers in this way and wounding their too scrupulous consciences, you are really sinning against Christ.

If others enjoy such rights over you, have we not a still better claim? But, you say, we have never availed ourselves of this right. No, we will stand anything rather than put any hindrance in the way of the good news of the Christ.

But I have not availed myself of any of these rights. And I am not writing this now so that I may become an illustration of this; I had rather die than do that. No one shall deprive me of this boast of mine.

For if I do it of my own accord, I have my pay, but if I do it because I must, it is still a responsibility that I am charged with.

To those who have no law I have become like a man without any law??hough I am not without the law of God, but under the law of Christ??o as to win over those who are without any law.

Do you not know that in a race the runners all compete, but only one wins the prize? That is the way you must run, so as to win.

Any man who enters an athletic contest goes into strict training, to win a wreath that will soon wither, but the one we compete for will never wither.

But I beat and bruise my body and make it my slave, so that after I have called others to the contest I may not be disqualified myself.

These things happened to them as a warning to others, but they were written down to instruct us, in whose days the ages have reached their climax.

It is no superhuman temptation that you have had. And God can be depended on, not to let you be tried beyond your strength, but when temptation comes, to give you a way out of it, so that you can withstand it.

No, but that what the heathen sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to have fellowship with demons.

We are free to do anything, but not everything is good for us. We are free to do anything, but not everything builds up character.

No one should look after his own advantage but after that of his neighbor.

But if someone says to you, "This meat has been offered in sacrifice," let it alone, on account of the man who told you and his conscientious scruples;

just as I for my part try to please everyone in all I do, not aiming at my own advantage, but at that of people generally, in order that they may be saved.

But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, while a woman's head is her husband, and Christ's head is God.

For if a woman will not wear a veil, let her cut off her hair too. But if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, let her wear a veil.

For man was not made from woman, but woman from man,

and man was not created for woman, but woman was for man.

But in union with the Lord, woman is not independent of man nor man of woman.

but a woman's long hair is her pride? For her hair is given her as a covering.

But if anyone is disposed to be contentious about it, I for my part recognize no other practice in worship than this, and neither do the churches of God.

But while I am on this subject, I cannot approve of your meetings, because they are doing you more harm than good.

But if we recognized our own condition, we would not incur this judgment.

But since we do incur it, we are disciplined by the Lord, so that we may not be condemned along with the world.

Endowments vary, but the Spirit is the same,

and forms of service vary, but it is the same Lord who is served,

and activities vary, but God who produces them all in us all is the same.

For the body does not consist of one part but of many.

As it is, there are many parts, but one body.

that there is no clash in the body, but its parts all alike care for one another.

But you must cultivate the higher endowments.

I will show you a far better way. If I can speak the languages of men and even of angels, but have no love, I am only a noisy gong or a clashing cymbal.

If I am inspired to preach and know all the secret truths and possess all knowledge, and if I have such perfect faith that I can move mountains, but have no love, I am nothing.

Even if I give away everything I own, and give myself up, but do it in pride, not love, it does me no good.

But when perfection comes, what is imperfect will pass away.